diff --git a/tripleo_ansible/roles/tripleo_container_manage/defaults/main.yml b/tripleo_ansible/roles/tripleo_container_manage/defaults/main.yml
index c420ecda6..8c1e2b281 100644
--- a/tripleo_ansible/roles/tripleo_container_manage/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/tripleo_ansible/roles/tripleo_container_manage/defaults/main.yml
@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ tripleo_container_manage_config_id: tripleo
 tripleo_container_manage_config_overrides: {}
 tripleo_container_manage_config_patterns: '*.json'
 tripleo_container_manage_debug: false
-# Some containers where Puppet is run, can take up to 15 minutes to finish
+# Some containers where Puppet is run, can take up to 10 minutes to finish
 # in slow environments.
-tripleo_container_manage_create_retries: 90
-# Default delay is 10s so 60 retries makes a timeout of 15 minutes which is
+tripleo_container_manage_create_retries: 120
+# Default delay is 5s so 120 retries makes a timeout of 10 minutes which is
 # what we have observed a necessary value for nova and neutron db-sync execs.
-tripleo_container_manage_exec_retries: 90
+tripleo_container_manage_exec_retries: 120
 tripleo_container_manage_healthcheck_disabled: false
 tripleo_container_manage_log_path: '/var/log/containers/stdouts'
 tripleo_container_manage_systemd_order: false